The city was present on some maps before disappearing completely, but until now, it had remained hidden under the thick canopy of the rainforest. LiDAR technology, which employs lasers to map the ...

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system. Nature, 2024; 626 (7999): 555 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06970-0 ...

A new model pinpoints "tipping points" that the Amazon rainforest is approaching due to climate change and deforestation. | ...

The Amazon rainforest staggered through another difficult year in 2024. A second year of record drought contributed to wildfires that worsened deforestation across the massive forest, which spans ...

WASHINGTON — Archaeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that were home to at least 10,000 farmers around 2,000 years ago. A series of earthen mounds and ...

Forest loss in Brazil’s Amazon — home to the largest swath of this rainforest — dropped 30.6% compared to the previous year, the lowest level of destruction in nine years.

Less than three months before it hosts the United Nations’ COP30 climate summit, Brazil is accelerating its efforts to set up ...

The area of Amazon rainforest lost to fires in Brazil in July fell 65 percent compared to a year ago, the MapBiomas ...

Raiumundo Freire, who harvests a mixture of forest products including açaí and cacau, said he’s witnessed the process himself. He first moved to the Triunfo do Xingu territory in 1986, when it ...